Making the Information Society illuminates the complex chain of experiences,consequences, and possibilities that launched the information age in theU.S., and drive it onward today. Dr. James Cortada shows how Americans haveleveraged information technology in every area of their lives -- and offersa provocative look at the next phase of this new American revolution.
DR. JAMES W. CORTADA is Director of CSL Programs and Support for IBM Global Services in Madison, WI. He is a leading authority on the use, management, and history of information technology, and is author of over two dozen books on these subjects. He lectures widely on how companies are moving from the old to the new economy.
Cortada's most recent books include 21st Century Business: Managing and Working in the New Digital Economy (Prentice Hall PTR); Into the Network Age: How IBM and Other Companies Are Getting There Now; The Rise of the Knowledge Worker, and Best Practices in Information Technology. Together with Professor Alfred D. Chandler, he edited A Nation Transformed: How Information Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present.
Dr. Cortada is a member of the American Society of Quality and is the Chairman of the Charles Babbage Foundation at the University of Minnesota. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from Florida State University.